Lexical Summary ragam: to stone, kill by stoning Original Word: רָגַםTransliteration: ragam Phonetic Spelling: (raw-gam') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to stone, kill by stoning Meaning: to cast together, to lapidate Strong's Concordance certainly, stone A primitive root (compare regeb, ruwa', raqam); to cast together (stones), i.e. To lapidate -- X certainly, stone. see HEBREW regeb see HEBREW ruwa' see HEBREW raqam Brown-Driver-Briggs H7275. ragam [רָגַם] verb stone, kill by stoning (denominative ? compare סקל; or originally = throw, hurl ? Late Hebrew רָגַם throw at (rare); Arabic throw stones at, stone, also (from accompaniment of stone-throwing) revile, curse, compare Ethiopic curse, WeHeld 2.111, 250; Aramaic רְגַם, stone); &; Qal Perfect3plural consecutive וְרָֽגְמוּ Leviticus 24:14 2t., suffix וּרְגָמֻהוּ Deuteronomy 21:21; Imperfect3masculine pluralיִרְגְמוּ Leviticus 20:16, 27 ׳וַיִּר, Joshua 7:25 4t.; suffix יִרְגְמֻהוּ Leviticus 20:2, ׳וַיִּר2 Chronicles 24:21; Infinitive absolute רָגוֺם Leviticus 24:16; Numbers 15:35; construct לִרְגּוֺם 14:10; & stone, with accusative of person + בָּאֲבָנִים Deuteronomy 21:21 (D), Numbers 14:10; 15:35-36, (P), + בָּאֶבֶן Ezekiel 16:40; Leviticus 20:2, 27 (H); + accusative אֶבֶן Joshua 7:25 (JE), Leviticus 24:23 (P), 2 Chronicles 24:21; with ב person + accusative אֶבֶן 1 Kings 12:18 2 Chronicles 10:18; with עַל person + accusative אֶבֶן Ezekiel 23:47; with accusative of person alone Leviticus 24:14 (P); with ב person alone, יִרְגְּמוּבֿוֺ רָגוֺם 24:16 (P). &; Synonym סקל q. v. |